Ana Marcela Cunha, who was announced the Best Female Athlete in Open Water by FINA Aquatics World Magazine will take part in the 41st Annual Fort Lauderdale Rough Water Swim in Florida. Bruce Wigo, CEO of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, is implementing various new safety aspects into the race this year including swimmer […]

Valerio Cleri and Ana Marcela Cunha were voted the Best Athletes in Open Water in 2010 in a global selection organized by the FINA. The FINA Aquatics World Magazine organized the voting by 570 individuals from FINA, media representatives and the 202 national federation around the world. Valerio of Italy won a 10K gold medal

If you look at the open water swimming world, there are a whole lot of smart people. It makes sense: the sport requires diligence and dedication while combining tactics and strategy in a dynamic environment. It is frankly rare at the Olympic level, the top athletes have their PhD’s. But in Beijing, the open water

Check out the top pro triathletes – or even your average triathlete – and they usually have knock-out, dynamic, robust, colorful promotional websites. Open water swimmers like Damian Blaum, Poliana Okimoto and Maarten van der Weijden have cool and informative websites, but open water swimmers seem to be less self-promotional than their triathletes counterparts. But

In an pro-active, reasonable decision, Australia’s Swimming New South Wales’ Technical Open Water Swimming Committee developed a new Water Temperature Policy that was recently approved and announced by its Board of Directors. It is a welcomed move in the open water swimming world. The new water temperature policy can help other governing bodies and race

Mercedes Gleitze, a 1969 International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee, was the first Englishwoman to swim the English Channel in 1927 before and after which she had a very interesting, successful and rewarding life. In an era before modern-day aviation, Mercedes swam throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. She was born in

Swim like a turtle is not really what a lot of open water swimmers want to hear. But it is a compliment if they are talking about leatherback turtles that have been discovered by British scientists have to be able to swim for thousands of miles in a nearly perfectly straight line. Exeter University’s Centre

The Telegraph reported that the London Olympic Games Organizing Committee (LOCOG) is working with British Swimming and FINA’s Technical Open Water Swimming Commmittee to improve its safety plans at the 2012 London Games 10K Marathon Swim. The Telegraph also reported that there will be an Olympic 10K Marathon Swim test event this August on the

Joseph Oakes and Gary Emich wrote a new book Open Water Swimming – Lessons from Alcatraz. Oakes and Emich wrote the book for those who are encouraged “to enjoy the wonderful feeling of success that comes from completion of the great, difficult and classic swimming challenge” of swimming from Alcatraz Island to the shoreline of

Andrew Zimmerman, the fabulously entertaining television host of Bizarre Foods, got out of his comfort zone and joined the open water swimming community in one of his recent Appetite for Life Curbside Cuisine episodes. Andrew went for a little dip (to use the words by Kevin Murphy) in San Francisco Bay’s Aquatic Park with the